Ogden Goelet says "without an exemplary and moral existence, there was no hope for a successful afterlife", while Geraldine Pinch suggests that the Negative Confession is essentially similar to the spells protecting from demons, and that the success of the Weighing of the Heart depended on the mystical knowledge of the true names of the judges rather than on the deceased's moral behaviour.
The inestimable importance of culture is at the foundation of human progress, and a socio-economic development cannot be understood simply in terms of its economic growth, but also in terms of achieving a more intellectual and moral existence.
It's there in the words of the centenary essay penned by Scott in 1921, in which he wrote of the balance between the material and moral existence of a newspaper – between profit and power.
Dr David Lowry Stoneleigh, Surrey Alan Rusbridger has shown exceptional skills and imagination in maintaining the balance between "material and moral existence – profit and power", which, as CP Scott wrote 94 years ago, is essential if a newspaper is to be great.
Here we could speak of moral existence internalism and externalism.
But universalist views face the twin challenges of apparent unorthodoxy and of seeming to trivialize earthly moral existence, which most religions treat as of paramount importance.
The best form of existence for human rights would combine robust legal existence with the sort of moral existence that comes from being supported by strong moral and practical reasons.
Taylor does not attack the bad reduction case by case, but proceeds as if it were generally already winning — as if it were already vitiating the prospects of a moral and meaningful existence.
The impression of a life lived without consequence, or what art historian Hans Belting describes as "unspoilt and pre-moral existence", is underscored by the absence of children and old people.
For Mr Johnson, and this is his great strength, there is a moral imperative to all existence and Napoleon fails that test.
